a5c7b9f00b An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighborhood that's surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord and his plot to devastate the entire city.
BRICK MANSIONS had the potential to be a decent film with some good action sequences and a social message, but it fails to deliver on both of those fronts. The lone bright spot in this film is a few scenes where David Belle gets to show off his parkour, but it was used far too little in my opinion. The plot is threadbare and knee-deep in action movie clichés. Paul Walker's character is out to avenge his father's death, David Belle's character just wants to clean up his neighborhood, and they are both trying to stop a nuclear bomb from destroying Detroit.<br/><br/>As this is a remake, I think it's entirely fair to compare it to the original. In this case, that film was DISTRICT B13 (or, BANLIEUE 13). I've only seen some clips from it, but I know that the basic plot is the same. However, why that one seemed to have worked is because it was relevant to French culture, in which the areas outside Paris proper, the "banlieues," are neglected and often havens for crime and violence. Translating this into something American audiences would understand isn't too difficult, and they made a good choice to set this in future Detroit, but they fail to do anything but pay lip service to the idea that there are areas in the US that have become ghetto-ized and neglected by the government that's supposed to protect and serve them. The way it was dealt with in the movie was extremely trite and clichéd.<br/><br/>However, the other aspects of the film weren't that great either. The acting is poor across the board, and Paul Walker came across the best. When Paul Walker is the best actor in your movie, then you have a problem. Making matters worse was David Belle who, if that was his real voice, sounded completely unnatural in English. If it wasn't, then that was some very bad dubbing. To top it off, RZA is abysmalthe main villain, Tremaine. He may be a good rapper, but a good actor he is not. And then the material the cast was given to work with wasn't really great either. Everyone gets saddled with awful dialogue, and the delivery didn't help matters much either.<br/><br/>But how does the action hold up? Thankfully, it was comprehensible for the most part. Some fight sequences were a bit too choppily edited, but not to the point where I couldn't make out what was going on. And even though there wasn't enough parkour, it was still adequately filmed. What I didn't really like about the action was the occasional speed ramping/slow motion. If they had just let the action flow naturally, the filma whole wouldn't have dragged so much.<br/><br/>Overall, I went in with low expectations and those weren't even met. The story was clichéd and silly, and the acting was very poor, even by this kind of movie's standards. The action was decent, but there wasn't enough parkour to my liking. Thankfully this won't be Paul Walker's last movie,Fast & Furious 7 has yet to come out. For those curious about this movie, just watch DISTRICT B13. This movie is a piece of garbage.
I personally thought the original French film "District B13" was great so when I first saw the preview for this I was excited especially with David Belle reprising his role. But maybe all that excitement got my hopes a little bit too high because I was very disappointed with this American version.<br/><br/>My first real problem was the fact that Belle's voice is dubbed. They shoot it in a way so that when his character has dialogue, his mouth is hardly visible and when it is visible, the words don't match what he's saying. It's similar to what happened in "Enter The Dragon" when the main bad guy's lines were all dubbed. I figured maybe since he was in the movie, he was able to speak some English.<br/><br/>In the original Paul Walker's character Damien, seems to have more skill with hand to hand combat. Walker isn't a martial artists and the fight scenes he has are your typical American cop type of fights. The one thing Paul Walker did was act. He and Belle were the only actors who can actually act. What I mean by that is the secondary characters were horrendous! B acting at best, I've seen better on the Scify channel.<br/><br/>My expectations were probably a bit too high and because of that I couldn't enjoy this all that much. The ending is also different in this movie and I disagree with it. The French film is so much better on so many levels. Skip this and watch District B13.
The parkour is breathtaking and the plot twists are off-the-charts ridiculous.
Both versions differ severely. For instance, the Extended Cut contains an entirely new soundtrack, David Belle has a different voice - at least that is the case in the English audio track - but he always has a French accent. A lot of the single scenes are recut and often have an alternate order. Some story details are altered,well. And of course, violence is added to the Extended Cut which was probably removed from the Theatrical Version in order to get the PG-13 rating.
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